Meet the Directors
Future Home Care was founded in 2004 to offer people with Learning Disabilities
and their families, a choice in how they were supported in living a genuinely
independent lifestyle.
Roger Telphia - Managing Director
Roger is a founding Director and the current Managing Director of Future Home Care
Limited which is a self styled Social Enterprise that reinvests its profits in the
development of its staff and for the benefit of its Service Users.
Born in Birmingham, he attended the University of Central England where he studied
Housing Management, and has developed a national reputation as one of the leading
social entrepreneurs in the health and social care sector.
Prior to working at Future Home Care, Roger worked in the private sector and had a
successful career in banking and financial services, firstly with CitiBank and later
with Robert Fleming Bank. He developed his career by providing financial advice to
the small and medium size business sector.
Roger has served on a number of public and voluntary sector committees including as
a non-executive director of South Birmingham PCT, vice-chair of north Birmingham
Mental Health support group and secretary of the African Caribbean Community
Development Agency.
His ambitions are to advocate for third sector organisations, to play a leading role
in providing the delivery of domiciliary care services and, in doing so develop
Future Home Care Limited into a national provider.
Denis Hennigan - Head of Property Development & Strategic Planning
Denis has been involved with Future Home Care almost from it’s inception in April 2004, but formally joined the company in September 2009.
His main role within the organisation is to provide housing solution to all of the clients FHC currently work with. This will involve strategic partnerships with local authorities throughout the UK, private investors, developers, registered social landlords, housing associations, and estate agents.
The FHC focus is to offer individuals choice, choice of where they live, who they live with, and what type of accommodation they want to live in. This is done to ensure that everybody is offered the chance to have access to his or her own property with their own tenancies.
Born in Birmingham, Denis worked within the finance sector, specialising in investment and development with Robert Fleming private bank and Save and Prosper investment bank. Following fifteen years in the financial industry Denis moved into the car rental field, moving swiftly through the ranks to become head of corporate car rental UK for Thrifty and Dollar car rental.
Denis shares the same passion and vision as the other directors, his drive to provide quality affordable homes for all, to provide choice. To help support any individual to have their own home is what drives him on. He will continue to engage with all relevant groups to ensure FHC has a continued stream of properties for our clients.
Shirleyann Harris MBA, RNLD - Director of Operations
Shirley joined Future Home Care as director of operations in January 2007. Prior to this she had worked in the NHS for 24 years.
She qualified as a Registered Nurse Learning Disabilities in 1986 and began working as a community nurse in west Birmingham. She then went into a number of posts, both clinical and managerial, across all areas of learning disabilities services.
Shirley was then seconded to South Birmingham Mental Health Trust as acting director of Monyhull Hospital, at which time she also acquired an MBA and had 3 children.
In 2005, Shirley became the vice chair of the Professional Executive Committee, a prestigious position ensuring people with learning disabilities are represented at senior level. Shirley also joined the national network for Learning Disability Nursing, for which Future Home Care sponsor a prize to encourage students and qualified nurses across the UK to share innovation and good practice in relation to services for people with a learning disability.
Shirley is best described as being hard working, tenacious, firm but fair with all the right skills required to support the growth and development of Future Home Care, and to ensure all services users remain at the forefront of what Future Home Care does, as they will always come first.
Alan O'Nions - Director of Development
My story so far....
Being born and raised in West Bromwich in the West Midlands I left school in 1990
and joined Nat West Bank International Trade Department in Birmingham. I spent my
time at Nat West undertaking a number of roles but finished by spending 2 years in
the banks Quality Improvement & Audit Team before leaving to pursue my career in
social care.
In 1995 I became a support worker; enabling learning disabled deaf blind adults to
live independently in small residential homes. I then spent the next 8 years in
various registered manager roles managing learning disability services in the NHS,
in large national providers and for small voluntary sector organisations.
I first met Roger Telphia (fellow Founding Director) in January 2002 when, as CEO,
he invited me to take a management role at Future Health & Social Care C.I.C. It was
whilst at Future Health & Social Care that we developed the vision for Future Home
Care. Having worked in learning disability services for seven years I had often felt
that learning disabled adults were not always offered the choice of quality services
that they deserved. I had many ideas to make big changes but found many
organisations keen to stick with their tried and tested models. This coupled with
the publication of Valuing People propelled us to put into action our vision of a
quality service that offered genuine choice and control for all learning disable
adults.
In late 2003 Roger, Kwame Senyah (Founding Director) and I developed our bespoke model of care, support and housing for learning disabled adults and Future Home Care as we know it today was born. We started with a single supported living scheme supporting 2 ladies in Erdington Birmingham and have grown to where we are today - supporting many learning disabled people across the UK.
I am proud that the vision and values that we held so dear from our outset are still
the vision and values that drive us forward today. I am immensely proud to have
founded and to own the company with Roger and Kwame and to continue to work every day with an excellent and talented team of staff across the UK who ensures that we continue to strive for excellence and to offer the best possible quality of service to all those who use and work within the service.
I would like to sincerely thank all of those committed and talented people who have
worked so hard over the past years, and continue to do so, to build Future Home Care
- putting us out there as a leading organisation in modern learning disability
services.
Finally most biographies demand that we talk about our qualifications... I am happy
to be living proof that as somebody who started out on my social care career in 1995
as a support worker I was able to use the NVQ route to successfully progress to
where I am today. My NVQ’s at level 2, 3 and 4 along with my NVQ Assessor and
Verifier awards have proven to be an excellent foundation when added to my ‘hands
on’ experience. I also hold a City & Guilds 7307 Adult Teaching Award and a HND in
the Management of Social Care Services.
In 2010 I am looking forward to......
Commencing my Executive MBA course at Warwick University
Trekking to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro
Kwame Mensah Senyah FCCA - Director of Finance
Born in Kumasi Ghana in 1967, Kwame is one of the founding members of Future Home Care.
Kwame came to the United Kingdom in 1997 to further his studies in the field of accountancy. He is now a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has previously worked in practice before he joined Future Home Care in 2003.
Kwame’s ambition is to work with all directors and staff to continue to provide good quality support to as many vulnerable people as possible.
Ian McCartney - Director of Quality
Ian joined Future Home Care as Director of Quality in September 2010. Born in London and raised in Kent, Ian originally worked in the personal financial services industry. In 1993 he went into care management, specifically working on the implementation of the 1993 Community Care Act and the introduction of charging for social care services.
He then went into housing, as a welfare benefits manager for Moat Housing Group and was responsible for helping tenants to claim over £2m in benefit entitlements before coming back into social care as the contracts and commissioning manager for the supporting people programme. He was part of the working group that drew up the supporting people contract and advised local authorities on charging models and contractual issues.
Ian then worked on the campus re-provision programme in Kent as contracts manager, commissioning the transfer of 30 services and 190 service users from NHS provision to the private sector, and introducing a quality monitoring regime to all new providers. It was during the tendering and procurement process that he was first introduced to Future Home Care who successfully tendered for a number of services in Kent. Ian was so impressed with the ethos and values of the company, he successfully applied for the role of Quality Director!
Ian’s focus is on producing a quality monitoring tool and processes that put quality at the heart of everything Future Home Care does, and to help make a positive difference to the lives of people that require support.
In his spare time Ian enjoys long walks up steep hills and has successfully summitted the highest peaks in the UK as well as Kilimanjaro and reached Everest base camp via the high passes in 2009.
